Whistlin' Past The Graveyard

Well I come in on a night train With an arm full of box cars On the wings of a magpie Cross a hooligan night And I busted up a chifforobe Way out by the Cocomo Cooked up a mess a mulligan And got into a fight [Chorus] Whistlin past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack I'm a mean Mother Hubbard Papa one eyed jack You probably seen me sleepin' Out by the railroad tracks Go on and ask the prince of darkness What about all that smoke Come from the stack Sometimes I kill myself a jacket Suck out all the blood Steal myself a station wagon Drivin' through the mud [Chorus] I know you seen my headlights And the honkin' of my horn I'm callin' out my bloodhounds Chase the devil through the corn Last night I chugged the Mississippi Now that suckers dry as a bone Born in a taxi cab I'm never comin' home [Chorus] My eyes have seen the glory Of the draining of the ditch I only come to baton rouge To find myself a witch I'm-ona snatch me up a Couple of em every time it rains You see a locomotive Probably thinkin' its a train [Chorus] What you think is the sunshine Is just a twinkle in my eye That ring around my fingers Just the fourth of July When I get a little bit lonesome And a tear falls from my cheek There's gonna be an ocean in The middle of the week [Chorus] I rode into town on a night train With an arm full of box cars On the wings of a magpie Cross a hooligan night I'm-ona tear me off a rainbow And wear it for a tie I never told the truth So I can never tell a lie [Chorus] --- Whistlin' Past the Graveyard - Tom Waits